Heron's Fountain

[Pirate88179]

TK:

Please feel free to post links to your videos here on the work you have been doing.  With your permission, I will do it but, I think the folks need to see what you have done thus far.  I really like the ping-pong ball container.....some wild thinking there.

Bill

[TinselKoala]

Thanks Bill!

Here's the "extended version" with the pingpong ball chamber. It's a spacer, really, from the ideas given by Conradelektro and the wiki pages, and my own realisation that the fountain depends on the difference in levels between source and receiver reservoirs. The easiest way for me to add a spacer was just to put another jar in the stack, and have it function as an extended air conduit. The pingpong balls are there to reduce the active air volume in the extra vent space, so that it's not as "springy". The external plumbing of this version might make the operation clearer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3UGTyc36f4

I think I'll put another spacer in the stack, just to see how high it will actually pump.

[Pirate88179]

TK:

Thanks.  Yes, I understand taking up the air volume but, those balls are somewhat pressurized and therefore...maybe...will compress just a little and then feed the energy back the same amount...you know?  Well, maybe I should not say they are pressurized but, they are sealed spheres and when you squeeze them, they squeeze back.

Does this make any sense?  This is why I thought your choice of the balls was brilliant.  I'll bet if you used metal spheres to take up the space, you would lose something there.....just thinking.

Bill

[Lakes]

Rename Tk`s latest video "The Pickled Egg Fountain" 

[Pirate88179]

Rename Tk`s latest video "The Pickled Egg Fountain" 

Good name...I like it.

Bill